Did Jesus know how to write, and, if so, why don't any of his writings exist?

Answer 1

GOOD question and one I've asked myself. Jesus was obviously well educated and had to have learned to read and write brought up in the jewish school system of his time. If there is a gospel written by him it's either locked in the Vatican to keep people from reading the truth or when it is found it's going to be dyamite. Also, maybe it was a personal thing, people at that time didn't write if they didn't have to. Reading and writing were luxuries, those who could were fortunate to be able to. Espcially if you were going to be a rabbi you damn well were taught to read and write. It's also more likely Jesus preffered the oral tradition of debate and talking with the people.
Christain writings were buried in clay pitchers to avoid being burned by first the romans and then the beginning church officials. Any gospels written by Jesus that contradicted how they were teaching and threatened their powerbase would have been shredded.

Vin

Answer 2

Well at one point jesus wrote something in the sand but nobody knows what it was because he erased it. Jesus definitly could read so I assume he could write. Most people back then couldn't afford to write. Paper was too expensive and so was ink. Plus he had no home so were would he have kept his work?

Answer 3

The short answer is: because Jesus himself didn't exist. No contemporary scholar made any note of his activities (though we DO have records of other folks of much less historical significance), nor did anyone seem to notice any of the most overt miracles credited to Jesus, like causing an earthquake, causing the saints to rise out of the ground and walk about, etc.

Answer 4

According to the writer of the gospel according to John, Jesus did write something in the sand but it got rubbed out, of course.

Answer 5

You can't testify about the existance of yourself or what you do.
According to Jewish law someone an eye witnesses has to testify about what you did. He had four or more.
If four men from fishermen consider businessmen in the community to a doctor to a man who works for the government.
Testified in a court case about someone as an eye witness and heard the man say that. It would be considered valid.
Actually it only takes two.

Answer 6

It definite would be nice to have one Quote from Jesus that was written by Him or an I witness who wrote it at the time of the event. Instead of writings written 100yrs. later.
Tammi Dee

Answer 7

the Bible says he was a carpenter. Jesus' mission on earth was not to write but to preach, heal and eventualy die 4 us fulfilling a very old prophecy (Gen 3:15).

Answer 8

He may have, and there are "stories" of finding the Gospel of Jesus, but there are no proof. Plenty of famous historic figures wrote, but it didn't get saved, or it got destroyed at some point.

Answer 9

probably not, only like one in a hundred people could write back then. it was a skill like being a doctor is today. you had to be highly educated to know how to write

Answer 10

sure he did, he was a Jew in a Jewish region, they were all taught how, and he did write in the passage in John 8 of the casting of the stones in the sand, not sure what he wrote, but he did write.